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Detective and mystery stories Great Britain History Regency, 1811-1820 Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction Murder Fiction Murder Investigation Murder Investigation England London Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Prohibition Fiction Widows Fiction Women private investigators FictionSchellman, Katharine
Summary: "New York, 1924. Vivian Kelly's days are filled with drudgery, from the tenement lodging she shares with her sister to the dress shop where she sews for hours every day. But at night, she escapes to The Nightingale, an underground dance hall where illegal liquor flows and the band plays the Charleston with reckless excitement. With a bartender willing to slip her a free glass of champagne and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchellman, Katharine
Summary: "London 1815. Though newly-widowed Lily Adler is returning to a society that frowns on independent women, she is determined to create a meaningful life for herself even without a husband. She's no stranger to the glittering world of London's upper crust. At a ball thrown by her oldest friend, Lady Walter, she expects the scandal, gossip, and secrets. What she doesn't expect is the dead body in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Fiction Schellman 2020Schellman, Katharine
Summary: Regency widow Lily Adler must earn the trust of her father to help her solve the murder of an old family friend who had secrets worth killing for - and who had family with a lot to gain from his death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SCHSummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: Little big league: An inspiring family comedy adventure about a boy's determination to put the fun back into baseball after inheriting the Minnesota Twins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KiSchellman, Katharine
Summary: Regency widow Lily Adler is looking forward to spending the autumn away from the social whirl of London. When she arrives in Hampshire with her friends, the Carroways, she doesn't expect much more than a quiet country visit and the chance to spend time with her charming new acquaintance, Matthew Spencer. But something odd is afoot in the small country village. A ghost has taken up residence in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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Summary: "Prohibition is a dangerous time to be a working-class woman in New York City, but Vivian Kelly has finally found some measure of stability and freedom. By day, she's a respectable shop assistant, delivering luxurious dresses to the city's wealthy and elite. At night, she joins the madcap revelry of New York's underworld, serving illegal drinks and dancing into the morning at a secretive,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SCH1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Summary: The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries inspired by the novels of Caroline Graham. Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby has policed the murderous county for decades, and now he is ready to retire. In these four episodes Barnaby investigates his final cases before leaving the denizens of MIdsomer in the capable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2012
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Summary: "The rumor went through the Nightingale like a flood, quietly rising, whispers hovering on lips in pockets of silence. Life as a working-class girl in Prohibition-era New York isn't safe or easy. But Vivian Kelly has a new job at the Nightingale, an underground speakeasy where the jazz is hot and the employees look out for each other in a world that doesn't care about them. Things are finally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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Summary: "Regency widow Lily Adler is looking forward to a quiet Christmastide away from the schemes and secrets she witnessed daily in London. Not only will she be visiting the family of her late husband; she will be reunited with Captain Jack Hartley, her friend and confidante, finally returned after a long voyage at sea. But secrets aren't only found in London. Jack's younger sister, Amelia, is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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Summary: Widowed Lily Adler, known for solving puzzles for London's elite, must untangle a web of family secrets, a missing will and blackmail before a hidden killer strikes again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Like everyone else in the Panopticon, 15-year-old Anais Hendricks has been in and out of foster care practically since birth. "[B]orn in a nuthouse to nobody that was ever seen again," she had her only successful foster placement with a prostitute later stabbed to death (Anais found the body). She's been sent to this facility, where the inmates are under constant surveillance, because she had a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAGDesmond, Jenni.
Summary: "Fur flies and feline friendships form as two cats of different colors find that, with a little effort, they can be themselves and make a perfect blend"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Apple Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DESDuddle, Jonny
Summary: When Captain Twirlybird and his ghostly crew start to loot the town of Dull-on-Sea on the night of every full moon, the townspeople try vainly to protect their treasures, but Matilda calls on her friend Jim Lad and his pirate family for help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Books, an imprint of Candelwick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Duddle 2016Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DUDDuddle, Jonny.
Summary: A pirate family moves into a quiet sea-side neighborhood and causes all the neighbors to gossip and after Matilda becomes friends with young pirate Jim Lad, the pirate family decides to set sail, but not without leaving behind a few hidden surprises for Matilda and the neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Templar 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DUDFagan, Jenni
Summary: It's November of 2020, and the world is freezing over. Each day colder than the last. There's snow in Israel, the Thames is overflowing, and an iceberg separated from the Fjords in Norway is expected to drift just off the coast of Scotland. As ice water melts into the Atlantic, frenzied London residents evacuate by the thousands for warmer temperatures down south. But not Dylan. Grieving and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAGDuddle, Jonny
Summary: When Matilda finds a treasure map and the Jolley-Rogers set out to find the gold, they will have to find a way to avoid being eaten by the monster that awaits them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Duddle 2017Walsh, Jenni L.
Summary: Determined to escape poverty, Bonnelyn Parker secretly takes a night job in a 1927 speakeasy while maintaining her wholesome-girl identity by day, an endeavor that introduces her to convicted felon Clyde Barrow, who entices her to become his partner in crime. Summer, 1927. Bonnelyn Parker is more likely to belt out a church hymn than sling drinks at an illicit juice joint. She plans to overcome...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALHeiny, Katherine.
Summary: Throughout these 11 stories, "Heiny chronicles the ways in which we are unfaithful to each other, both willfully and unwittingly. Maya, who appears in the title story and again in various states of love, forms the spine of this linked collection, and shows us through her moments of pleasure, loss, deceit, and kindness just how fickle the human heart can be"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEIKenna, Alex
Summary: "Kate Myles was a promising Los Angeles police detective, until an accident and opioid addiction blew up her family and destroyed her career. Struggling to rebuild her life, Kate decides to try her hand at private detective work--but she gets much more than she bargained for when she takes on the case of a celebrated painter found dead in a downtown loft. When Margot Starling's body was found,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KENPenney, Stef.
Summary: Hovering between paralysis and delirium in a hospital bed, half-Romany private investigator Ray Lovell evaluates a case involving the missing wife of a charismatic traveling Gypsy whose hostile family is hiding a tragic secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PENWillett, Jincy.
Summary: The endearingly bitter writer, Amy Gallup has happily isolated herself from the world spending the last two decades teaching and reviewing. She has done a lot of thinking, but very little writing. On an unassuming morning, in her slippers, Amy trips in her backyard, goes head-over-heels, and into the side of a birdbath. The hospital clears her of head injury, so Amy returns home. When a local...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSummary: An original musical screenplay brings to life the story of P.T. Barnum and his creation of "the greatest show on Earth". Rising from nothing, P.T. sets out to make a better life for his family. His creativity and drive take him on an fantastic journey beyond what he or anyone else could have imagined. In the end he creates a magical experience that will be enjoyed and celebrated by generations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GREJeong, You-Jeong
Summary: ""A cool, crafty did-he-do-it thriller...The Good Son will rivet readers of Jo Nesbo and Patricia Highsmith." --A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window. The Talented Mr. Ripley meets The Bad Seed in this breathless, chilling psychological thriller by the #1 international bestselling novelist known as "Korea's Stephen King" Who can you trust if you can't trust...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018